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Published on: January 7, 2019
Surface plasmon resonance sensor using a polarization-maintaining fiber on a hetero-core optical fiber structure with
Abstract:
This study experimentally demonstrated the effects of two polarization-maintaining fibers (PMFs) as a sensing region instead of conventional single-mode fiber (SMF) using Au-coated hetero-core optical fiber surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor. We experimentally observed that the SPR resonant wavelength is shifted toward longer wavelength with refractive index (RI) increasing from 1.332 to 1.396. A PMF sensor exhibits the broad SPR spectra, resulting in a higher sensitivity with a 1.5-fold change in the light intensity at 850 nm relative to RI, compared with the SMF case. Discussions most likely responsible for this effect are given by the lower angular distribution peak in the hetero-core region of PMFs.
